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Tales of Suspense, #50 British

Published: February 1964

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Issue Contents:
The Mandarin!

Story Featuring Iron Man

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Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

The Hands of the Mandarin!

Story Featuring Iron Man

"I pity you, Iron Man!!"

Storyline

The Pentagon sends Iron Man into red China to get information on the Mandarin, an evil scientist feared even by the Communist regime. Iron Man struggles to overcome the Mandarin's powerful rings and martial arts, but he escapes his castle.

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Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/don-heck-tales-of-suspense-50-complete-13-page-story-the-hands-of-the-mandarin-original/a/7248-91015.s In this story Pepper gets a makeover and is consequently redrawn as a more attractive woman.

Journey's End!

Story Featuring Tales of the Watcher

"In this log is inscribed the whole pageant of cosmic history!"

Storyline

A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them.

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Lettering credit is from the reprint in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5.(Checked by Merlin Haas from that issue, October 1, 2009.)

Them!

"Sometimes the incredible begins with the commonplace!"

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A man frantically tries to convince passersby that he is being chased by storybook characters. He is arrested by the police, but disappears from his jail cell, as he himself is a fictional character created by Larry Lieber.

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Info from Stéphane Petit via the GCD Error Report (September 28, 2009).

Another Marvel Masterpiece
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Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 (February 1964).

Another Marvel Masterpiece
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Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (February 1964). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story.